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Germany’s Media Broadcast tested an UltraHD broadcast, via satellite, on the 2nd April. The firm showed a live transmission of the Vienna State Opera, with 100% signal availability or the 50fps stream. It used 36MHz of bandwidth and used the Hot Bird satellite at 13° East and Eutelsat at 5° West.
A new Roku Stick has been announced, with a quad-core processor and up to eight times the power of its predecessor. WiFi has been updated to dual-band MIMO and the operating ysstem is Roku OS 7.1. One of the new features is a Private Listening mode, where audio is played from a mobile device’s headphone … Read more
An update to the Playstation 4 console has delivered an in-built game streaming service. The ‘Remote Play’ feature enables gamers to stream games to PCs and Macs on the same network, so that the main screen can be used to watch TV. Games are streamed at 1280 x 720 and at 30fps or 60fps, prioritising … Read more
Matrox has said that it will exhibit at the Digital Signage Summit Europe (23rd – 24th June, Munich). There, the firm will show off its C900 video card and Maevex encoders and decoders.
LG Display has said that it will build an OLED display module assembly plant in Vietnam. The plant, in Hai Phong, will begin production in the second half of 2017. Although LGD did not share the scale of the investment, Vietnamese authorities gave the figure as $1.5 billion. Construction will begin in May. LG Display … Read more
The Korea Intellectual Property Office has granted Samsung a patent for contact lenses with a tiny display and built-in camera, as well as sensors that detect movement. The ‘eye-mount display’ projects images onto a wearer’s retina, irrespective of the focal distance, and would be used for augmented reality. Samsung says that the system could have … Read more
LG’s 2016 TVs have been awarded the Netflix Recommended badge, for the second year in a row.
‘People familiar with the plans’ have told the Taipei Times that Nokia Oyj is planning to cut between 10,000 and 15,000 people – 14% of its total 104,000 employees – from its workforce, following its merger with Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia Wins Alcatel-Lucent). The job cuts will affect Nokia’s operations worldwide, and are part of a plan … Read more
HTC’s revenues were down 1.3% MoM, but 79.3% YoY, in March, to NT$4.1 billion ($127.6 million). In the year-to-date, HTC has registered revenues of NT$14.8 billion ($456.7 million): a 64.3% YoY drop.
HTC is to launch an HTC Vive experience zone in the Harrods department store, London. Consumers will be able to try and pre-order the device there. HTC has also said that it will work with Ikea to launch a VR kitchen, using Valve’s Steam platform, and work with Japanese company Gree to develop VR content … Read more
Quanta Computer reported net profit for full year 2015 at NT$17.8 billion (US$538.91 million), down 5.6% YoY. Turnover for the period was NT$ 1 trillion ($30.23 billion), up 8.7% YoY. Net profit declined due to the effect of currency conversions.
Espial and Tele Columbus have successfully trialled an UltraHD video service in Germany, called ‘Advanced TV’. The Tele Columbus service is based on Espial’s video solutions. 83% of trial participants were said to show approval of the system, and 78% of the EPG. This was the first phase of an ongoing trial.
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